For Mai Ling’s third and final program in the series Becoming Stickiness: Protocols for Survival, the exhibition and festival Spring Stretch dives into spring and its transformative energy through an exhibition and a series of workshops, performances, talks, reading sessions, interventions, and gatherings. Extending Mai Ling’s rhizomatic relations of friendships, kinships, and alliances, it honours plural relations and practices of collective resilience and survival. 

Spring Stretch is accompanied by Mai Ling’s ever-transforming mobile kitchen, which acts as a platform for gatherings, imagining communal cooking, collective public eating, and cultural memories around them.

Over the course of three weeks of May at 8B®1 in the 15th district, we will be learning from and with artists, researchers, practitioners, makers, writers, and community members whose practices embody and enact sprouting, rooting, and futuring across generations and geographies.